PROJECT
BESITOS
is a federally funded Title III grant which supports a Career Ladder
Project. This project will certify/endorse and sponsor 37 students to
earn a B.S. in education and become qualified, bilingual/ESL endorsed
teachers.

PRIMARY
GOAL:
Recruit, prepare and mentor secondary students and paraprofessionals
for teaching careers in Bilingual Education in order to increase the
quality of Bilingual education for CLD students in Kansas.

Kansas State University
Faculty Quotes:

"BESITOS is a wonderful program.
I was able to showcase this program when speaking with the visitors
for the NCATE evaluation. Second, I am able to talk with students
who are looking into education about the wonderful benefits of the
program. Third, I was able to speak with the Manhattan/Ogden school
Superintendent about the benefits of this program. Next, I was able
to talk to several people about the placement rate for BESITOS graduates:
100%! Finally, I believe that BESITOS has caused us to see the need
to assist students in an impactful way with passing the PPST. I do
not feel that a test should determine whether these students can be
a success--they are already successful! We just have to make sure
this is a small hurdle, not an impenetrable wall. Congratulations."

"Overall, it is a program that is being used
as an example of one of K-State's excellent programs for underrepresented
groups. I hear this across campus."

"The program has served the university very well
in terms of its first purpose. I also want to emphasize, however,
that it has served as an example, even a model. I have told many people
about it in that context. I know, for example, that the Developing
Scholars Program is working on a grant with the community colleges
in southwest Kansas and in Kansas City that uses some of the early
recruitment strategies that characterize BESITOS. I also know that
the College of Agriculture is building a much more aggressive approach
to diversity in the college as well as in AES and CES. One of the
things he is looking at is collaboration with some southwest Kansas
community colleges in recruitment of Hispanic students. It seems to
me that your model could be a good one for them."